Thank your Representative for restoring the funding that Governor Baker had tried to cut.

Urge your Representative to support Representative James Miceli’s Amendment #437 to prevent any reduction in services at Tewksbury Hospital.

If this protective language is not included:

There will be an additional burden on the patients and their families

The quality of care will be diminished

It will result in higher costs. The beds slated for closure by Governor Baker are geriatric beds, which means that these patients would most likely be transferred to nursing homes- at a much higher cost.

Patients will have nowhere to go. Some of these patients, nursing homes would not even be an option due to the patient’s complex medical needs or significant mental health needs.